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What Hath God Wrought

Daniel Walker Howe

How did the young United States extend its reach across a vast, diverse and already inhabited continent after the Battle of New Orleans?

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Author
Daniel Walker Howe

Why read it

  • You will see why American history can be understood only within the continental setting of Native nations and rival empires
  • You will learn how the telegraph and faster communication overthrew the tyranny of distance, reshaping American politics and business
  • You will understand how Andrew Jackson used presidential power in new ways, and why it provoked fierce fights over authority

Who it is for

  • A history reader curious about early America beyond the founders
  • A teacher of American history
  • Someone curious how a republic became a continental power

Contents

  1. 1 The Continental Setting
  2. 2 From the Jaws of Defeat
  3. 3 An Era of Good and Bad Feelings
  4. 4 The World That Cotton Made
  5. 5 Awakenings of Religion
  6. 6 Overthrowing the Tyranny of Distance
  7. 7 The Improvers
  8. 8 Pursuing the Millennium
  9. 9 Andrew Jackson and His Age
  10. 10 Battles over Sovereignty
  11. 11 Jacksonian Democracy and the Rule of Law
  12. 12 Reason and Revelation
  13. 13 Jackson’s Third Term
  14. 14 The New Economy
  15. 15 The Whigs and Their Age
  16. 16 American Renaissance
  17. 17 Texas, Tyler, and the Telegraph
  18. 18 Westward the Star of Empire
  19. 19 The War Against Mexico
  20. 20 The Revolutions of 1848

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